Senior OpenShift & RHEL Administrator

Ericsson; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson is seeking an experienced IT System Expert in Dubai to design, deploy, and manage OpenShift container platforms and Linux infrastructure. You will lead lifecycle management, perform health checks, and implement security hardening, while collaborating across infra, app, and security teams.

Ideal candidates have 8–10+ years in IT infrastructure, strong OCP/RHEL skills, and automation experience with Ansible, Bash, and monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of IT infrastructure administration experience.
• Strong hands-on OpenShift (OCP 4.x) and RHEL administration.
• Solid Kubernetes understanding and container orchestration knowledge.
• Experience with Ansible, Bash/Shell scripting, and automation.
• Good networking knowledge: DNS, TCP/IP, load balancers, firewalls, SSL/TLS.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana).
• Desirable Solaris administration, Red Hat Satellite, and container security knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support OpenShift Container Platform environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot RHEL servers.
• Manage OpenShift clusters: control plane, workers, operators, services.
• Monitor cluster health, plan capacity, tune performance, troubleshoot issues.
• Implement security hardening, RBAC, certificates, and compliance standards.
• Support containerized deployments and CI/CD integration.
• Patch OS, remediate vulnerabilities, and manage lifecycle.
• Troubleshoot Linux, OpenShift, networking, storage, and container issues.
• Collaborate with infra, app, database, and security teams on complex problems.
• Develop automation with Ansible and shell scripts.
• Prepare documentation, SOPs, diagrams, and runbooks.
• Participate in incident, change, and release management processes.
• Provide Level 3 support and escalation for OpenShift and Linux platforms.

Skills

IT Infrastructure Administration

OpenShift administration

RHEL administration

Kubernetes knowledge

Ansible automation

Shell scripting

Networking proficiency

Tools

OpenShift Platform

RHEL

Ansible

Prometheus Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

Ericsson is seeking an experienced IT System Expert in Dubai to design, deploy, and manage OpenShift container platforms and Linux infrastructure. You will lead lifecycle management, perform health checks, and implement security hardening, while collaborating across infra, app, and security teams.

Ideal candidates have 8–10+ years in IT infrastructure, strong OCP/RHEL skills, and automation experience with Ansible, Bash, and monitoring tools.